Great Scott! Back to the Future character
Doc Brown's watch of choice is the Seiko A826 Training Timer from
1983. The functions are controlled by a rotating bezel and a
wired trigger that attaches to your finger. Can you think of a
more fitting watch for the inventor of time travel?
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If you look closely, you'll notice Doc Brown is
wearing a second watch--a silvertone calculator model on his
other wrist. Could be an Armitron, Nelsonic or Advance...any
ideas?
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In Back to the Future, Michael J. Fox's
character Marty McFly is also wearing a calculator watch. After
analyzing the DVD and some catalogs from the period, we have high
confidence that the time-travelling slacker is sporting a Casio
CA-50.
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A few Seiko watches made an appearance in the
1986 film Aliens. Sigourney Weaver/Ellen Ripley is wearing
a stainless steel A728-7000 Speedmaster and the android Bishop is
equipped with the matte black A728-6000 Speedmaster. But if you
take a close look at the Marines, you'll see each one is wearing
a black Seiko S234-5000 Pulsemeter.
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We receive many requests asking to identify
Michael Knight's wrist communicator, the radio watch David Hasselhoff
used to talk to his four-wheeled partner KITT on the '80s hit drama
Knight Rider. The watch, cosmetically enhanced for the
show is a Hong Kong made LCD model sold under a variety of brand names (Nelsonic, Gala, Advance, Quasatron, etc.). But this gadget watch is pretty neat in its own right--it
has a built-in AM radio. Plug a set of headphones into the hole on the
left and tune the dial...we recall this one being a
great diversion in our junior high school Algebra class.
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In the 1983 film Blue Thunder, Roy
Scheider's character Frank Murphy is an ace police chopper pilot
on edge. He keeps his sanity with a wristwatch...a Casio AA-85 to
be precise.
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Nobel Prize-winning American economist
Milton Friedman championed the idea of laissez-faire capitalism.
He is considered one of the most influential intellectuals of the
20th century. His watch of choice? A Casio C-80 or C-90
calculator model.
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